What is religion?

It's become something that has been embedded into our cultural DNA. It is only natural that human beings would question something they don't understand or has been forced upon us. Something that is meant to be a lesson on morality becomes a tool of control.
What is said that religion is now seen as something tainted by the power of mass control has lost it's purpose.
How can something that is created by man suppose to enlighten the soul with stories filled with fear of the unknown? In a world today "the teachings" becomes what it implied. People no longer see this as a sign of hope, but more of a rooted thought that is hard to remove very much like racism.
This is what happens when something is taught at a very young age and it becomes a consumption of our thoughts and dictates our emotions to where we allow this "teaching" of intolerance to mold who we are as beings of hate and destruction. How can we disect the under currents of something that is applied in our daily life to where positivity will become the rebirth of humanity?

These are just my ideas and notes that shouldn’t be taken literal. more like questions to why.
 
I am just trying to understand why he is seen as taboo today in the western culture.

Blame of the demonization of the catholic churches

Who is Jesus Christ really and why is he being condemned by society?

Let’s just say (for the sake of Atheists everywhere) that he was just a man who wanted to change the current world (his time) ways of the corrupt.

I believe he sacrificed himself because he really believes in humanity and wanted them to live fulfilling lives the honest way.

Jews persecuted him because he makes them question their own morality and they were afraid of whom they were (man). That is what made Jesus powerful.

He felt that he reached the highest spiritual enlightenment to where he felt he was the one to teach those who wanted the same who wanted a better life. I said he is the son of god to which is his way of saying he finally understands life through this spiritual awakening.

The problem (which still exists today) is that the corrupted wanted completed control through fear and power and here comes’ the one man who was taking away their power by awakening the masses with truth exposing the lies through understanding.

I am just trying to figure why is a man who believed in his brothers and sister to a point where he is willing to sacrifice his life for us  is seen as evil?

That's it for now....